The court vacates a district court order requiring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accept dredged material in order to prevent the frustration of a consent decree designed to address water pollution problems around Detroit, Michigan. After the state revised the city's national pollutant discharg...

The court reverses the Rhode Island Supreme Court's holding that a landowner's takings claim arising from the state coastal protection agency's denial of the landowner's permit to develop coastal wetlands was not ripe, but affirms the court's holding that the landowner failed to establish a deprivat...

The court holds that an association of churches has standing to bring a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) citizen suit against the owner of a site contaminated with chromium, but that issues of imminent and substantial endangerment prevent granting the association summary judgment on the...

The court holds that an environmental group and a trade association lack standing to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) hazardous wastewater treatment sludge rule promulgated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The court first holds that the environment...

The court holds that a district court lacked jurisdiction under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the All Writs Act to hear landowners' land contamination claim against various corporations that owned and operated hazardous waste sites. After bein...

The court holds that an environmental group's challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) determination that the National Parks Air Tour Management Act does not bar proposed sightseeing tours out of the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, airport is not ripe for review. In 1999, and again in 2000,...

The court dismisses a company's petition for review of a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Administration Review Board (ARB) order remanding for further fact-finding and consideration an employee's claim that the company violated the Clean Air Act's (CAA's) and Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA's) w...

The court affirms the dismissal of two class actions brought by residents of Peru and Ecuador against a U.S. oil company for environmental and personal injuries arising out of the company's oil exploration and extraction operations between 1964 and 1992. The residents sought money damages under theo...

The court abstains from hearing a breach of contract claim between a bankrupt company and a county resource recovery agency. The company and the agency entered into a solid waste disposal agreement, which included a bond requirement that if the bond fell below investment rating, the company had 30 d...

The court affirms a district court decision allocating liability among past and present owners for contamination at an oil refinery site. The refinery was built in 1929 by a gasoline company. In 1984 it was spun off to a wholly owned subsidiary of the company that agreed to assume all responsibility...